AP A car bomb exploded outside a mosque Sunday, killing at least 37 people and wounding another 141 in a mostly Shiite Muslim neighborhood in the southern Pakistan city of Karachi — the third mass-casualty attack on the minority sect in the country this ...
It's a dangerous, unpredictable world. Twice in January Chinese warships in the East China Sea challenged Japan's Maritime Self Defense Forces patrols in a manner deemed threatening. And on Feb. 12 came North Korea's nuclear test.
Here's an open secret: Japanese men have a bad international reputation on the romance front.
SELLING WOMEN: Prostitution, Markets and the Household in Early Modern Japan, by Amy Stanley. University of California Press, 2012, 282 pp., $49.95 (hardcover) In the vast cultural landscape, Japan fascinates the mainstream with manga and anime, the martial arts, Zen and kimono. Of course, ...
Kenta Maeda shook off worries about his form with five shutout innings as Japan beat China 5-2 in first-round Pool A of the World Baseball Classic on Sunday at Fukuoka Dome. Japan improved to 2-0 following a tough win over Brazil in Saturday evening’s ...
GS Yuasa Corp., the battery maker at the center of the probe on fires that grounded Boeing Co.’s Dreamliner fleet, said it will maintain its production plan for car and aircraft lithium-ion cells even as the plane maker seeks approval for test flights. GS ...
Japanese and U.S. transportation officials went to Kyoto on Monday to inspect GS Yuasa Corp., which supplies lithium-ion batteries for Boeing Co.’s 787 Dreamliners, following the emergency landing of an All Nippon Airways Co. 787 last week that prompted the worldwide grounding of the ...
